77530Channelview, Texas

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 77530.

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How this area ranks
Schools3139th of 4,422 published ZIP areas35
Housing affordabilityTop 32% of 6,685 published ZIP areas90
ClimateTop 28% of 6,789 published ZIP areas75
Physical resilience5625th of 6,709 published ZIP areas21
AccessTop 38% of 6,791 published ZIP areas95
Economic stability5062nd of 6,742 published ZIP areas44
The quick read

In the public schools here, 33% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 16.0 students for every teacher.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by inland flooding, hurricane and drought.

A major airport is 13 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
31,527
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$62,195
Bottom 34% nationally
Density
2,283/sq mi
13.8 sq mi of land
Median age
32.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Channelview
Texas
Metro area
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX
Nearest major airport
EFD
13 mi · Ellington
Median home value
$180,800
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,751$62,195Bottom 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,993$25,878Bottom 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate17.9%Top 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute30.8 minTop 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher15.1%Bottom 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation63.5%Top 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$67,610Top 47%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$49,410Bottom 40%2025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202467k62k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $62,195 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers105,810$27,570
General and Operations Managers97,320$119,600
Retail Salespersons78,960$31,340
Stockers and Order Fillers72,970$36,890
Registered Nurses65,910$99,830
Customer Service Representatives65,510$40,380

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

33% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 31% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 16.0 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
9
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
16.0
across all schools here
Math proficiency
33.2%
Bottom 41% in Texas
Reading proficiency
31.4%
Bottom 22% in Texas
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
CHANNELVIEW H SCHANNELVIEW ISD2,91717.5
ALICE JOHNSON J HCHANNELVIEW ISD1,11215.932%29%
B H HAMBLEN ELCHANNELVIEW ISD88615.831%33%
MCGHEE ELCHANNELVIEW ISD77014.338%32%
DE ZAVALA ELCHANNELVIEW ISD63414.734%34%
MCMULLAN ELCHANNELVIEW ISD48213.838%38%
CRENSHAW ELCHANNELVIEW ISD48214.628%24%
EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERCHANNELVIEW ISD42720.3
ENDEAVOR HS-JOE FRANK CAMPBELL LEARNING CENTERCHANNELVIEW ISD9810.9

90.3% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Texas’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

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Median rent of $1,160 takes 22% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.9 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
22.4%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,160
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$180,800
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.91Bottom 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate69.8%Bottom 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±66210,468Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$112$1,160Top 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$10,643$180,800Bottom 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income22.4%Top 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate9.8%Bottom 45%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 93°F and January a low of 46°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 55.6 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 61, in the Moderate band, and about 47 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station HOUSTON HOBBY AP, 14.5 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND6.1"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index108.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation55.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low46°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high93°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 100472024 calendar year
Median air quality index61.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing30°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
61
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
108
90th percentile index
Days above 100
47
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

21 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, hurricane and drought.

HurricaneElevated
Inland floodingElevated
LandslideModerate
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, lightning, cold wave, heat wave, ice storm, strong wind, earthquake, hail, winter weather, wildfire, coastal flooding.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Harris County records 7.6 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 14.8 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 14.1 per 100,000 residents in Harris County.

Homicide
7.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
14.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
11.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Harris County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 77530 rather than 77530 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 13 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
EllingtonEFD13 mi9,001 ft
George Bush Intcntl/HoustonIAH19 mi12,001 ft
Sugar Land RgnlSGR35 mi8,000 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

77530 vs Channelview

How this ZIP area compares with Channelview as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

77530
Channelview
Median household income
$62,195
vs
$64,422
Per capita income
$25,878
vs
$25,193
Population density
2,283/sq mi
vs
3,026/sq mi
Median home value
$180,800
vs
$195,900
Median gross rent
$1,160
vs
$1,279
Homeownership rate
69.8%
vs
72.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher
15.1%
vs
15.2%
Poverty rate
17.9%
vs
20.3%
Median age
32.4
vs
30.9

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.